Greetings to everyone, although I do not speak German , I enjoy very much reading this forum trough Google Translate
, and decide to add something exsotic Bellow you can find more information about the only one Israel Ski resort
Resort: Mt. Hermon ( Neve Aviv)
Country: Israel
Domain: Hermon mountain
Author: Baba4ko
Date: January’ 18 2007
Website: http://www.skihermon.co.il/ Hebrew
Ski resort lies in Mt. Hermon , the northern point of Israel next to Lebanon and Syrian border. 500 km in the south you can enjoy a truly summer in the Red Sea, with air temp 24C-26C . Basic point of resort is 1640m above sea level, and the top is 2073m From Tel Aviv is approximately 3.5 hours drive. You can reach it by car, taxi or organized transport from Israel ski club. Winter is short and good condition for ski has between end of December and beginning of Mart.
Lift system includes 5 chair lifts 4of them with length around 1000m each (one of them for visitors only) 1 x 262m, and 5 draglifts. There are approximately 45 km of ski runs 5 of them are the main runs (Number 1,2,3,6 and 12 ), rest are short or ski roads.
Attached map
http://www.skihermon.co.il/bigmap.htm
ski rent for 1 day rent = USD 30.00; 1 day ski pass = USD 45.00
In the mourning pistes were only ice, but with strong sun become more soft and afternoon in some places there were visible stones. Runs were almost empty and very good no waiting time on the lifts, although it becomes very warm piste conditions were good. Usually waiting time in the lifts is about 15-20 minutes, but this day there were only few people, and we had a great day.
The place offers good ski for 1-2 days ski trip, and if we take into consideration it’s only one in Israel, there are not many choices but coming here or going to Europe.
some pictures
on the way
8.30 AM; behind Run 3
top of run 12 (Sion )
runs 1 & 2
Beggining of Run 1
end of run 2
2PM
veiw from bottom station
looking south /west form the top
top station
) was in summer 1998. At this time to my memory there were the two chairlift on the main axis, one detachable chairlift a bit further in the west (to the left looking upwards), some beginners lifts at the base and a short draglift on the backside, facing Mt. Hermon and the restricted area. I heard some roumours about an extension of the skiing area. Could you confirm this? Has it been already built, is it still a project, has it been cancelled? And second question: is the short draglift on the backside still in use? At the time I thought it might be a very sympathetic slope for panarama reasons - short and flat though. But the only slope on the Mt. Hermon side of the ridge which gave a phantastic view on Mt. Hermon (and the austrian outpoast and Neve Schlagim by the way... 